Leigh Sales, Australian Journalist and author, has written an important book about suffering and death Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience, and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life. While is it ok to talk about sex in our culture, for many, suffering and death talk are the new taboo. Sales choice to raise the profile of this out...

We live in a curious time in which so many people in the Western world know so little about Christianity. On one level this may seem like a trivial byproduct of the decline of Christendom. However there are dangerous consequences that fall out from this reality.
One of the consequences of this collective distance from the accounts of Jesus, is that...

When people find out that I am a minister (and not the political kind) often their first question is 'what do you do?' Do you lead worship /mass/ services on Sundays? Often people struggle for the words to describe this. I answer that I do.
Then sometimes, the next question people ask is 'but what do you do on the other...

Last year during the national debate about Marriage Equality in Australia, Richmond Uniting Church Council voted to display posters supporting marriage equality out the front of our church. This decision was made knowing that not all Uniting Church’s shared this view, but out of the deep concern that some Christian churches were claiming to speak for all Christians, as they...

A common question asked of people of religious faith is ‘how can there be a God if there is so much suffering and evil in the world?’ Bob Carr raised this objection in the Good Weekend recently (23/06/2018).
Sometimes this question is a genuine one, asked as people wrestle with the stark realities of pain and tragedy and consider the possibility...

Maundy Thursday 29th March at 7.30pm in the courtyard
Leaning into the story of the night Jesus was betrayed
Good Friday 30th March 2018 at 9am
Gathering at the foot of the scandalous cross
Ecumenical Stations of the Cross on Good Friday at 10.30am
Beginning in Citizens’ Park, Church Street, we will walk together
Easter Day Sunday 1st April at 10am
Celebrating the wonder of the Divine’s...

What do you hunger for?
This is one of the two questions we are attending to at Richmond Uniting during Lent.
The second question is: How might you respond with compassion to hunger in the world in a new way?
We are seeking to attend to both these questions during Lent and to take up practices that correspond to our answers, both in...

I was recently asked by someone whether I felt under attack.
They asked because I am a Christian and a Christian Minister. They wondered if I felt like I was being hassled or harangued, accused or silenced in our culture, because of my faith.
I suspect the question was prompted by the recent rhetoric of politicians, both in Australia and internationally, who...

If you are looking forward to Christmas or dreading Christmas, if you go to church regularly or never go to church, if you are super busy or bored, you are invited to come along to Beer and Carols.
This is a friendly, no pressure, event hosted by Richmond Uniting and Chalice - Northcote Uniting at the warm and inviting Wesley Anne...

I am not gay. I am a Christian. I am a Minister. When the Marriage Equality survey vote results were announced I cried. I cried with tears of joy and sorrow.
The tears of joy were for my friends who are gay and queer. I also cried tears of joy for all the people around Australia whose non-heterosexual relationships were being...